Betty's Summer Vacation

By Christopher Durang

Directed by Matt Poulson

Betty's Summer Vacation is a recent play by
Christopher Durang, best known for Sister Mary Ignatius
Explains It All for You (1980). Betty and her friend Trudy
are young women who rent rooms at Mrs. Siezmagraff's cottage on
the New Jersey shoreline for the summer. The vacation turns
quickly into an adventure into the darker sides of all the
summer renters at the house. Individuals clash when their
private desires and fears erupt into violence, egged on by the
cottage itself, which is alive and feeds on the entertainment
provided by the renters and their obsessive and compulsive
fantasies. Betty's Summer Vacation questions the role of
reality-based entertainment, post-modernism, and the pursuit of
pleasure without concern for others, in popular culture
today.